Composting kitchen scraps at La Perla Garden, 28 December 2008
A brief video tour of the compost at La Perla Garden including a Christmas tree, the addition kitchen scraps and turning a compost bin.
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Bio Pod Grub Composter embly Video
http://www.cleanairgardening.com/grub-composter.html
The Bio Pod Composter uses grubs to compost, and can actually break down your scraps into compost faster than worms. embling the composter is easy with a few quick steps. We’ve broken it all down for you in this video to help ease the embly process.
If you have any questions about this composter, please click the link at the top of this product description.
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Evette Rios creates a $10 composter for Everyday with Rachael Ray Magazine
This super easy composter barely costs $10. Check out this How to video featured on Everyday with Rachael Ray Magazine’s site www.rachaelraymag.com
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The JK 125 and JK 270 Composters. Your own Ecological Revolution!
http://www.sunwindandrain.co.uk
JK 125/JK 270 has been tested and evaluated in a project comprising 466 households in small houses and blocks of flats and day nurseries. The results have proved most satisfactory as has been shown in the Report No. 4229 by the Swedish Authority for Environment Conservation.
A rotating heat compost for convenient and simple use all the year round. Enjoy seeing the conversion of your kitchen waste into nutritious compost earth. Compost earth with which you can fertilize lawns, pot plants, and flower beds.
In a JK125 / 270 it´s an easy thing to compost all your kitchen food waste including meat and fish. Not many composters can do that.
The key to success is rotation
Mixing is necessary for making a compost to work well. Both for making the fresh waste coming into contact with that already mouldered, thereby rendering the process more effective, and in order to add air, necessary for the high demand for oxygen of the process.
This is done in a very simple way because JK 125/JK 270 being constructed for easy rotation. Furthermore it is very easy to adjust the air supply to suit the quantity of waste by aid of ventilators in the side walls of the machine. Insufficient airing makes a compost smell bad.
JK 125/JK 270 heat and efficiency
Breaking down of a compost generates heat. Different microorganisms start working at different temperatures. JK 125/JK 270 is well insulated and allows the temperature to rise to as high as +75 degrees centigrade at maximum breaking down. Without insulation it may not be possible to reach such a high temperature, which in turn means that microorganisms demanding high temperatures for their activity will never start working.
Using an insulated, rotating compost you get a more even heat distribution and an active breaking down process in the entire volume. That is why composting is made rapid; approximately 6 8 weeks time. The high temperature makes JK 125/JK 270 especially suited for kitchen waste.
Two compartments, for maximum result
JK 125/JK 270 is divided into two compartments to make emptying and bringing to maturity easier. The compartment filled last is covered by a sheet while the other compartment is emptied of its completed compost.
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The Big Bear goes Green!
John decides it’s time to turn kitchen scraps into compost for his flower gardens. A little camp humor.
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NatureMill Pro Automatic Kitchen Composter (Day 2 of usage – and working perfectly)
This is day 2 of using our automatic kitchen composter, and the materials are already starting to look like dirt. …
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NatureMill Kitchen Composter – Day 1
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Does anyone know how to make your own "Worm Composter"?
I know you can buy these worm composter in Bunnings Warehouse, but I would like to make my own. I heard that these composter gives your garden a very good organic liquid fertisliser and also gets rid of your kitchen waste too. Anyone have make one?
We have a worm bin. It looks like a big garbage can with four places down near the bottom where we drove big bolts into the ground (to stabilize it). The lid twists and locks down to keep the varmints out. We have raccoons in the neighborhood, so that is reassuring.
The large container has a few vent slots (upper and lower) around the sides. The bottom of the bin consists of a plastic grid (for drainage and air flow).
We started ours with a sack of manure and then we had sawdust from a project. We have the composter under a bay tree but I read someplace where it wasn't advisable to add those leaves (toxins?) but I have now forgotten reason. I ordered the worms after setting up the bin. Since then, the population has multiplied. The worms just love the fruit we throw in there and multiply like crazy with papayas, pineapple, and apricots.
Periodically, I turn the compost using a garden fork. When adding kitchen garbage, avoid adding meats or foods with oils in the bin — as advised by the brochure we got along with the bin. We only put-in fruit and vegetable trimmings. Whenever I add kitchen stuff to the bin, I push aside some of the compost and pour it into the well, then cover it up because otherwise, flies grow and multiply. After a week or so, I turn the compost. Must turn the compost periodically. Sometimes need to sprinkle with water, can't allow it to dry. The resulting compost has a sweet clean smell after it's been digested by the worms.
It's really hard for me to turn the compost with a frozen shoulder on the mend. No, my husband won't help. I wish I had one of those rotating types instead.
http://www.cityfarmer.org/wormcomp61.html
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Home Composter-Which do you prefer?
I am looking to buy a cheap home composter for kitchen scraps and I am choosing between the Garden gourmet and the Earth Machine. Has anyone used these? Preferences? See Links below:
http://www.composters.com/santacruz/sc_bins_p1.html#gg
http://www.composters.com/santacruz/sc_bins_p2.html
Thanks!
I really like this one. It is indoors and very easy to use. It uses very little electricity and anyone can use it. You toss in your stuff and it will tell you when it is ready to be used and will let you know if you need to add anything. It has an air filter so it does not smell at all. http://www.naturemill.com/ and this link will give you free shipping. http://www.planetnatural.com/site/indoor-composter.html But I guess if you want to go with one that you have listed above I would go with the first one. But if you like the square one see if you can get one that you can put worms inside and have a worm based compost pile. http://www.composters.com/santacruz/sc_worms.html
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